Just can’t watch Tv news anymore

The television pictures of Gaza are truly sickening and hard to watch over and over again. But turning them off doesn't mean that you put them out of mind and do nothing.
You can make your voice heard in many different ways, from writing to your MP and/or the papers and/or any relevant online campaign, to joining in a full-on street protest. Your local university will undoubtedly have a protest group.

Magenta8

I tend to read the news online rather than watch it on television. I find a lot of the adverts on television upsetting too, especially the ones involving ill children or children in war zones. That is before we get on to maltreated donkeys, bears, dogs and cats etc.

I don't stick my head in the sand I donate what I can, sign petitions and write letters but it doesn't stop me trying to avoid seeing disturbing stuff on film.

Precisely. Because once that vision is in your head you can't get rid of it. Someone once posted a video of dogs that were skinned alive for their fur. It was a peta video. I opened it not knowing what it contained and years later I can't get the image out of my head.

I tend to read the news online rather than watch it on television. I find a lot of the adverts on television upsetting too, especially the ones involving ill children or children in war zones. That is before we get on to maltreated donkeys, bears, dogs and cats etc.

I don't stick my head in the sand I donate what I can, sign petitions and write letters but it doesn't stop me trying to avoid seeing disturbing stuff on film.

MayBee70

I think we've pointed out that living alone and suffering from ill health and in pain sometimes means that we have to protect ourselves. And that, throughout our lives we have protested. If you can watch the news without crying fair enough but I can't...

Thank you Maybee70 it’s soo difficult watching this news alone .. 🙏

I think we've pointed out that living alone and suffering from ill health and in pain sometimes means that we have to protect ourselves. And that, throughout our lives we have protested. If you can watch the news without crying fair enough but I can't...

Sticking your head in the sand does nothing to stop these atrocities happen.

perhaps if more of us were prepared to watch the news and protest something might happen.

I must write to my MP and question why the UK doesn’t seem to be treating injured children from Gaza the way that other countries are. I think I’m guilty of not writing and complaining to my new Labour MP in the way that I used to do with my Boris Johnson adoring previous MP because I campaigned for her and chat to her on Facebook sometimes.

I look at the head lines and the local news but have stopped watching the main news as I feel so upset and so helpless about so many things that are happening and I get cross too as I m useless I can’t do anything to help or stop what’s going wrong in so many places

Exactly .. what do we do/ react .. I live alone and find the news so upsetting that it’s hard to find distractions and then I feel guilty ., maybe it’s due to being raised RC not sure .but now watching the severe plights of children being shot and then attending hospital on concurrent days with other wounds makes me very sad and Who is going to resolve this 😢

And the dreadful cruelty to babies and small children. The murders of young women. The violence outside schools. Young children stabbed. Old people badly treated in care homes and hospitals. Corrupt police and clergymen. Archbishops with feet of straw....I could go on and on. And so little we can do.

I too avoid the tv news and I used to despair of people who did this years ago.

I’ve been like this for a while. My partner watches the news and tells what is happening when he comes round each afternoon. We always have Ch4 News on in the evening but I now tend to leave the room. I do listen to TRIP podcast but also lots of other podcasts ( usually history ones) to take my mind off things. Throughout my adult life I’ve been politically proactive but I’ve never felt as helpless as I do now.